GUEST: This painting is by an artist, Loren Mozley. And it's supposed to be aspen trees, is what it says. To me it doesn't look like aspen trees, but that's okay. I don't know where he's from, but I know he started the UT School of Arts with another artist.
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: Way back sometime.
APPRAISER: And where did you get the painting?
GUEST: It was my mother's and she loved the painting. I was always scared of it. It's just... it's a scary-looking forest. I've grown to love it now that it hangs in my house.
APPRAISER: Oh, good. Well, the artist, as you said, is Loren Mozley. The medium is oil on canvas board. And this painting is of aspens. It's titled on the back. Loren Mozley was born in Illinois in 1905 and then moved to New Mexico in 1906. And he became known as a Southwest artist. He spent time in Paris studying, went to New York, was heavily influenced by artists Andrew Dasburg and John Marin. Also Georgia O'Keeffe was another influence. In 1938, Loren Mozley became one of the founders of the University of Texas fine art department. And there was some controversy because he and his partner wanted to use live models as nudes. So there was a lot of hoopla surrounding that.
GUEST: Whoo, yeah.
APPRAISER: This painting was done in 1947. It was exhibited at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Exhibition of Western artists in 1948. And it's just a classic example of this Modernist style with the cubism... A painting like this, with the great provenance and the exhibition history, I would imagine to sell at auction anywhere between $30,000 and $50,000.
GUEST: (laughs) No! Really?
APPRAISER: Yes.
GUEST: Oh, my goodness. Everybody says that. G... wow.
APPRAISER: It's really one of the nicest things I've seen doing ANTIQUES ROADSHOW.
GUEST: Really? Oh, that makes me feel really good.
